Tentative Outline of Volume

Physical Dynamics

Focal mechanisms triggering quakes
Earthquake progression, distribution of aftershocks, and redistribution of stress
Hazards posed by blind thrust faults
Ground motion
Earthquake-related physical effects that compound a disaster

Liquefaction
Landslide
Tsunami

Technological aids to seismological research

Seismic networks
GPS monitoring
GIS in seismological investigations
Missile navigation technology applications to earthquakes

Prediction/forecasting

Ultra-low frequency radio wave spikes before an earthquake
Radon anomalies before a moderate earthquake
The VAN debate over short-term prediction

Overview
Representing VAN
Representing critics of VAN

Chinese short-term predictions
Intermediate-term and probabilistic prediction

Historical and palaeo-seismicity
Geochronology
Reservoir-induced seismicity

Infrastructure as It Responds to Seismic Forces

Overview
The interface between seismology and earthquake engineering
GIS applications in geotechnical engineering
Lifelines

Overview
Bridges and roads
Telecommunications
Electrical grids
Gas lines
Water supply

Structures

Dams
Pipelines as Structures Responding to Seismic Forces
Tunnels as structures
Industrial structures and facilities in earthquakes
Steel frame buildings
Concrete and masonry structures
Wood-frame structures
Manufactured homes
Traditional architecture in earthquake-prone regions

Social vulnerability

The individual faced with earthquake hazard

Hazard perception and behavior
Ethnicity and gender in risk perception and response
Cartography and faulty perception
Reactions to pseudo-scientific predictions of earthquakes
Earthquake impacts on psychology
Seismic energy and the human brain

The economy faced with earthquake risk and disaster

Estimation of economic impacts of earthquake damages
Business continuity after earthquakes
Rôle of insurance in reducing losses

Earthquakes and social structure

Community self-organization in disaster
Response to earthquakes during political turmoil
Differential social vulnerability to earthquakes
Media impacts on earthquake response and recovery
Earthquakes and society through time

Before an earthquake: Barriers to mitigation
After a quake: response-recovery-reconstruction

Complex multi-hazard interactions after an earthquake

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Planning

Applications of GIS to specify probable hazards for planning
Earthquake risk information communication
Rôle of public education
Seismic building code specification and adoption
Planning for the needs of specially vulnerable groups
Planning for business continuity

Emergency Management

Real-time seismology applications to post-quake urban recovery
Medical and public health aspects
Emergency management coördination in planning and in response/recovery

Meaning and Earthquakes: Contributions from the Humanistic Approaches

Ethics
Earthquakes in art
Earthquakes in literature and film
Cultural interpretation of earthquakes

Last revised: 06/23/01